Empathy's been dying for quite some time now. Ever since 2014, I've been watching it slowly die. Have the wrong opinion? Get cancelled.
It's almost as if the idea of critical thinking died and in its place came absolute good and evil. Everyone wants to be perceived as the absolute good. Have an opinion that is any way thoughtful and watch it be vilified or dismissed as "Alt Right" or "Nazi" or even "Control Left" (because it happens on both sides of the spectrum).
It's funny you say that about people lazily wanting to sit at home and accept it. I used to joke that Mike Judges Idiocracy was less a comedy and more a documentary, but never really fully believed it as I didn't really believe humanity could be that frightfully stupid. But looking at it now in 2021? It's full on documentary and almost scarily accurate to where our world is headed. The ignorant masses will sit at home binging their bullshit Netflix TV shows, getting paid to do the bare minimum while the world around them will crumble and before they know it, their freedoms will be gone and in that place will be complete and utter dependence on a broken economy. All because humanity just stopped caring and became complacent in its own feeble will to "exist" according to its fee fees and on the bare minimum. And it will be because of the manufactured fear mongering of catching a virus that they have more chance of surviving from than anything else.
Hell, even in Idiocracy, law had become rather retarded and simply boiled down to public opinion of "they're guilty" without so much as a critical thought...sound familiar? Public opinion reigns supreme and if you say the wrong thing on social media then watch the mob take you down. I'm utterly convinced Mike Judge has a time ma-sheen and he made Idiocracy as a god damn warning to us all.
Ignorance will reign supreme. Sadly. Pathetically.
Empathy's been dying for quite some time now. Ever since 2014, I've been watching it slowly die. Have the wrong opinion? Get cancelled.
It's almost as if the idea of critical thinking died and in its place came absolute good and evil. Everyone wants to be perceived as the absolute good. Have an opinion that is any way thoughtful and watch it be vilified or dismissed as "Alt Right" or "Nazi" or even "Control Left" (because it happens on both sides of the spectrum).
It's funny you say that about people lazily wanting to sit at home and accept it. I used to joke that Mike Judges Idiocracy was less a comedy and more a documentary, but never really fully believed it as I didn't really believe humanity could be that frightfully stupid. But looking at it now in 2021? It's full on documentary and almost scarily accurate to where our world is headed. The ignorant masses will sit at home binging their bullshit Netflix TV shows, getting paid to do the bare minimum while the world around them will crumble and before they know it, their freedoms will be gone and in that place will be complete and utter dependence on a broken economy. All because humanity just stopped caring and became complacent in its own feeble will to "exist" according to its fee fees and on the bare minimum. And it will be because of the manufactured fear mongering of catching a virus that they have more chance of surviving from than anything else.
Hell, even in Idiocracy, law had become rather retarded and simply boiled down to public opinion of "they're guilty" without so much as a critical thought...sound familiar? Public opinion reigns supreme and if you say the wrong thing on social media then watch the mob take you down. I'm utterly convinced Mike Judge has a time ma-sheen and he made Idiocracy as a god damn warning to us all.
Ignorance will reign supreme. Sadly. Pathetically.
This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang, but a whimper.